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which organized and arranged 20th century america. joseph kennedy was a invalid type figure. he was everywhere. he was born in 1888. he lived through world war i. the 120s. he lived in hollywood at the moment of transition from silent films to talking films. he was on wall street during the boom and bust. he worked as part of the franklin roosevelt campaign team. he was the first chairman of securities and exchange commission and the maritime commission and the first irish-american to be ambassador for the court of st. james to great britain. he was also the father of the president and attorney general. a senator and the woman who did more for the mentally disabled in this country and this world than anyone else. a woman who will be as well known as her brothers, i think. the youngest to, the ambassador to ireland, jean kennedy smith, who was essential enraging piece. and senator edward kennedy, the longest-serving senator at his death in the united states senate. the story of joseph kennedy is the story of the man who spent his life moving back and forth from outsider to ins
which organized and arranged 20th century america. joseph kennedy was a invalid type figure. he was everywhere. he was born in 1888. he lived through world war i. the 120s. he lived in hollywood at the moment of transition from silent films to talking films. he was on wall street during the boom and bust. he worked as part of the franklin roosevelt campaign team. he was the first chairman of securities and exchange commission and the maritime commission and the first irish-american to be...
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and the big business, the corporations, the 1% and the rich, the jews, america. this enemy is necessary not because the troubled or hateful but because their weekend. they've become weak through the constant and tolerable expenditure of energy of the improvisation of a culture if. the house guest that was previously the left is quite literally the pledge allegiance to obama in the may encounter a rational change either from himself or from another which is insurmountable in the state they must feel the priceless appearance can enliven his resolve calling upon of his exhausted believe but upon his an exhausted courage. i would suggest we let this we imagine himself as at the bridge but it is universally read in the use is no longer of cultural currency and which of the songs of my you free man casing at columbia at the ocean, captain my captains from star spangled banner, the lord's prayer, the cottage, the communion, the mass, the deacons, the bible, the declaration of independence from the gettysburg address. those various productions of poetry, universally led
and the big business, the corporations, the 1% and the rich, the jews, america. this enemy is necessary not because the troubled or hateful but because their weekend. they've become weak through the constant and tolerable expenditure of energy of the improvisation of a culture if. the house guest that was previously the left is quite literally the pledge allegiance to obama in the may encounter a rational change either from himself or from another which is insurmountable in the state they must...
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. >> next on booktv, greg lukianoff argues that america's university and college campuses stifle free speech and discourage students from holding unpopular views. the author contends this environment has increased the country's political and decreased this course. it's about 45 minutes. [applause] thanks so much for having me. i was at that first conference and we had randy barnett speaking over there and was exciting to be here for the inauguration from the organization. i'm going to start on a little bit of a personal note. i'm having a big month and i want to let you know since some of your friends of mine and some of you will be. i just got married on the 12th. [applause] i have a book come out on tuesday called campus censorship and the end of the american debate and i am leaving right after this for my 20 it high school reunion took about how free speech is curtailed on the modern american campus and how i believe it harms us all whether we are on campus or not. why did i write this? i wrote "unlearning liberty" because i went to stanford specifically to study the first amendmen
. >> next on booktv, greg lukianoff argues that america's university and college campuses stifle free speech and discourage students from holding unpopular views. the author contends this environment has increased the country's political and decreased this course. it's about 45 minutes. [applause] thanks so much for having me. i was at that first conference and we had randy barnett speaking over there and was exciting to be here for the inauguration from the organization. i'm going to...
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we published this basically to present americans with our idea for america, which is the same america, just better. now, once elected, we'll tackle the big issues in the country. for example, sex education in schools will require to acknowledge there's such a thing as sex. [laughter] absz nans sex scandals play themselves out in movies. to america's waistline, we require fast food mascots be tied to the product they sell. we are excited to unvail the influence that will be big with the kids. regarding traditional marriage. one gay couple should be allowed to marry for each straight couple that gets divorced. congratulations, las vegas, you're about to be the gayest city in america. to bring transparency back to the political process, like drugs and cigarettes, each new piece of legislation must clearly state possible side effects and must be titled to reflect its actual contents, thus, the patriot act is named, fuck you, thomas jefferson. [laughter] this enlightens the elitists and how to hate people who are better than you, and the metric season, exactly ten times more awesome than i
we published this basically to present americans with our idea for america, which is the same america, just better. now, once elected, we'll tackle the big issues in the country. for example, sex education in schools will require to acknowledge there's such a thing as sex. [laughter] absz nans sex scandals play themselves out in movies. to america's waistline, we require fast food mascots be tied to the product they sell. we are excited to unvail the influence that will be big with the kids....
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in both europe and america -- with eugenics. in america a group was led by such people as margaret sanger, whose journal, the birth control review, endorsed her friends book, quote, the title is the rising tide of color, against white world supremacy. her into this negro project use black ministers, including adam clayton powell to promote birth control. but the effort in england, germany and the united states to melt public health and eugenics rampart deeper. rather, they found their way into international and state policy with support from groups such as the national committee for mental hygiene, urging sterilization as a newcomer to quote prevent this class of persons from propagating, unquote. germany use venereal disease law to enlist doctors, greatly extending the power of the state into the private sphere kind producing a union with a medical profession that would be preferred rather easily in the third reich. in germany, one expert observe quote the more scientific a doctor's outlook was, the more politically naÏve he w
in both europe and america -- with eugenics. in america a group was led by such people as margaret sanger, whose journal, the birth control review, endorsed her friends book, quote, the title is the rising tide of color, against white world supremacy. her into this negro project use black ministers, including adam clayton powell to promote birth control. but the effort in england, germany and the united states to melt public health and eugenics rampart deeper. rather, they found their way into...
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the other aspect is america is not so inhumane that in the end when the need is desperate they do get into a hospital, but the cost gets shifted in the complicated accounting to somebody else. selling fact one of the reasons we have such an inefficient health care system is we don't provide care to large fraction of the population. >> the amazing thing, getting to it sort of universal health care system, despite the absence of a public option and the compromise made it is not a big budget. they were able to pay for it with relatively modest savings and the little bit of extra taxation and on balance the congressional budget office says the health reform bill is actually going to reduce the budget deficit and it is not going to lead to huge burdens on the public. that they die, it is very much at stake. if obama is reelected, america joined the community of civilized nations that provide some form of health insurance to all their citizens. if he loses it gets killed. >> we are out of tune to the rest of the industrial countries. nicolas sarkozy in france came to columbia and gave a tal
the other aspect is america is not so inhumane that in the end when the need is desperate they do get into a hospital, but the cost gets shifted in the complicated accounting to somebody else. selling fact one of the reasons we have such an inefficient health care system is we don't provide care to large fraction of the population. >> the amazing thing, getting to it sort of universal health care system, despite the absence of a public option and the compromise made it is not a big...
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it's this notion of america. a radical welcome openness, bring a tradition, plant the seeds and americans will. let them grow into institutions and into the obligations of welcoming and open to others. so that spirit of welcoming and openness that i think is at the heart of american tradition that i think it's at the heart of islam as well. no one articulates that better or well then rumi. >> so, i need to confess that i get emotional when a talk to people like eboo about the issues that we're going to be addressing tonight. particularly the issue of interfaith relations, and also the issue of the idea of america. right after 9/11, several of us, a lot of us gathered at a mosque here here at usc, and i heard a sentence that changed my life. and it was this, to be religious in the 21st century is to be interreligious. and it is that dedication that draws me to eboo and the way he thinks. so, i'm going to apologize only once for an emotional about this man. if i get choked up your just say, chalk it up to that. but
it's this notion of america. a radical welcome openness, bring a tradition, plant the seeds and americans will. let them grow into institutions and into the obligations of welcoming and open to others. so that spirit of welcoming and openness that i think is at the heart of american tradition that i think it's at the heart of islam as well. no one articulates that better or well then rumi. >> so, i need to confess that i get emotional when a talk to people like eboo about the issues that...
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and now we see we in america are at the outword end of sir john gloves' 250 years, and we see the signs. we have passed through the ages of outburst, conquest, commerce, affluence, intellect, and we've come to the age of decadence. this in all empires, he writes can be identified by defensiveness, pessimism, materialism, frivolity, the welfare state, the dissolution of the armed forces, the weakening of religion and the attempt to curry favor in the world. but he also wrote a companion essay called the search or for survival in which he writes that every one of us contribute to the recovery of our country by working harder, by fostering a sense of comradeship and good work and that only a revival of spiritual devotion, not fashionableisms, can inspire service and even of us -- each of us can contribute by speaking and writing in that sense. if we have no reeders, we must go it alone. in the chicago public schools, we regularly read the lay of the last minstrel hoi ray shus of the bridge, and perhaps it is not quite the time to ask how can men die better or than by fiercing -- [inaudible
and now we see we in america are at the outword end of sir john gloves' 250 years, and we see the signs. we have passed through the ages of outburst, conquest, commerce, affluence, intellect, and we've come to the age of decadence. this in all empires, he writes can be identified by defensiveness, pessimism, materialism, frivolity, the welfare state, the dissolution of the armed forces, the weakening of religion and the attempt to curry favor in the world. but he also wrote a companion essay...
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europeans feel that america -- george soros said to me the great thing about being a rich guy in america versus europe is in america if you're rich, people look up to you, and you're not necessarily. what is interesting is similar tensions are evident in europe, two and similar reactions. we've all been following france and attacks at the top living to 70% in the reaction of it to belgium. not for tax purposes, except kind of for tax purposes. in switzerland interestingly, there is a huge kind of national revolt against the superrich should all pay a high-tech suit either. very similar tensions, but there's a more extreme dynamic in the united states. >> which u.s. government policies in your view of that and perpetuate the transfer of wealth between the middle class in the top 1%? and could you rank importance, including for example -- >> would probably take all night. >> i suppose it would, but please address and include the tax equity, inequities, especially between earned income and capital gains. the federal reserves policy of low interest rates and the emphasis on spending rather t
europeans feel that america -- george soros said to me the great thing about being a rich guy in america versus europe is in america if you're rich, people look up to you, and you're not necessarily. what is interesting is similar tensions are evident in europe, two and similar reactions. we've all been following france and attacks at the top living to 70% in the reaction of it to belgium. not for tax purposes, except kind of for tax purposes. in switzerland interestingly, there is a huge kind...
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>>guest: this is the shipwreck it changed america and the story comes with it and this is how america bought the louisiana purchase, this is a shipwrecked went from 1783 that you see right here and over 200 years at the bottom of the ocean, it is authentic,$89.95 with the red oak presentation box vital 52 of. solid final four dozen of those is all that we have. ship will have a full presentation but we wanted to give you an opportunity say that up before it is fun but this is what i am this is an unprecedented this is coming in at $275, 5¢ shy $275 over be told by you, we are doing it at over $100, we are including 56 coins , 50 state plus the six territorial quarters for $33.32, over three months, it is a customer, we are also the red oak presentation that is 5 mike this is $79.95 and two with no points and we will share that with you and this is a customer pick $79.95 in this we will include 56 of your orders for $25. >>guest: the acrylic capsules, these are special aired tight capsules they do have pvc free and you can these we sell 56 of these for $24.95 for the holders the packa
>>guest: this is the shipwreck it changed america and the story comes with it and this is how america bought the louisiana purchase, this is a shipwrecked went from 1783 that you see right here and over 200 years at the bottom of the ocean, it is authentic,$89.95 with the red oak presentation box vital 52 of. solid final four dozen of those is all that we have. ship will have a full presentation but we wanted to give you an opportunity say that up before it is fun but this is what i am...
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. >> in little america: the war within the war for afghanistan, washington post senior correspondent rajiv command sake ran reports on the military and the government's failings in the war in afghanistan. nancy gibbs, editor at large and michael duffy, executive editor for time magazine, chronicle the relationship of the u.s. presidents in "the presidents club: inside the world's most exclusive fraternity." and kevin phillips recounts what he believes was the most important year of the american revolution which was 1775, a good year for revolutions. for an extended list of links to various publications 2012 notable book selections, visit booktv.org or our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> in 2008 judge robert bork sat down with eugene meyer, president of the federalist society, on booktv's "after words," an hourlong interview program. judge bork discussed a collection of his written works spanning nearly four decades. this interview was taped at judge bork's home in virginia. judge robert bork died on december 19, 2012. >> host: why did you, why did you collect "a time to speak,
. >> in little america: the war within the war for afghanistan, washington post senior correspondent rajiv command sake ran reports on the military and the government's failings in the war in afghanistan. nancy gibbs, editor at large and michael duffy, executive editor for time magazine, chronicle the relationship of the u.s. presidents in "the presidents club: inside the world's most exclusive fraternity." and kevin phillips recounts what he believes was the most important year...
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or maybe you'd rather think of something from the america of that area roughly, maybe a little bit earlier, the great depression, to get an image in your mind of the great depression. if you're having trouble, think of it tired him a worried looking at another stare off into the distance with a ragamuffin child leaning on each shoulder. can you find that famous iconic image in your mind? that image by dorothea lange called migrant mother that has come to symbolize the great depression. the images you've conjured up in your mind have been black and white. very, very likely. so i'd like you to do the same exercise but think of japanese imprisonments. think of the imprisonment of japanese americans during the war. so what are you picturing? does it look like this? a bunch of young, japanese-american grossing promoters dancing? this is a photograph taken by a government photographer at the granada relocation center, also known as the macho in 1943. so if this is that which you had in mind, what's different about it? well, it's a photo of young american citizen to being a celebrating the spirit
or maybe you'd rather think of something from the america of that area roughly, maybe a little bit earlier, the great depression, to get an image in your mind of the great depression. if you're having trouble, think of it tired him a worried looking at another stare off into the distance with a ragamuffin child leaning on each shoulder. can you find that famous iconic image in your mind? that image by dorothea lange called migrant mother that has come to symbolize the great depression. the...
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this is true as much in the recent past as it is of colonial america or 12th century venice. writing about the recent past is not easy as it is this time around. first there are people you have to talk to. and while i was blessed from beginning to end by having some fascinating people to talk to about joe kennedy including large numbers of committees, i much prefer working from written documents to listening to people talk and try to figure out what's real, what's imagined, what they know, what they think they know because someone told them what they think they know they don't know at all. the difficulty is that it is not always easy to establish to construct the path that is so close to us and yet this is what historians have to do. our job is to complicate to take apart our common sense to interrogate what we think we know to demystify, demythologize, move beyond the cliche about winners and losers, saints and sinners, about the wisdom and courage of the forefathers especially those of the greatest generation. our job as historians is totally different story, the grounded b
this is true as much in the recent past as it is of colonial america or 12th century venice. writing about the recent past is not easy as it is this time around. first there are people you have to talk to. and while i was blessed from beginning to end by having some fascinating people to talk to about joe kennedy including large numbers of committees, i much prefer working from written documents to listening to people talk and try to figure out what's real, what's imagined, what they know, what...
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even though we love america, we are not america and we cannot make mistakes because if you make a mistake, you pay a price, but you are able to correct it. if israel makes the mistake, we cannot correct it. we saw in the past. the main point of my book that israel must make decisions according to israel. we do not have to think or to try to satisfy anyone. even if it means telling our allies or the american president or the e.u. or the u.n., we do not agree with you. i'll give you two examples. i'm going to do with the issue of iran. because if i could not do it will be the first question. but before iran, let's speak about iraq. in the early 80s, decided to attack a nuclear reactor in iraq. it wasn't popular here in the u.s., but we did it and we were condemned by the u.s., the state department. we were condemned by the u.n. years later, people appreciated the grave issue he took was for the benefit of the american people. because then you invade iraq come you are able to go into iraq without the risk of the iraqi nuclear. thus go back to 1973. i'm sure some jewish people and the audienc
even though we love america, we are not america and we cannot make mistakes because if you make a mistake, you pay a price, but you are able to correct it. if israel makes the mistake, we cannot correct it. we saw in the past. the main point of my book that israel must make decisions according to israel. we do not have to think or to try to satisfy anyone. even if it means telling our allies or the american president or the e.u. or the u.n., we do not agree with you. i'll give you two examples....
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through workers' rights evisceration through the vilification of workers and labor in america to get to the point where we have chinese slave wages in america yes that's what we needed to do thank you now we have a prison state that's growing by leaps and bounds and prison labor for the same out there making over in china fantastic so kevin nolan the vice president of technology found that the juice bring suffered from advanced technology version of ikea syndrome it was so hard to assemble that no one in the big room wanted to make it instead they redesigned it the team eliminated one out of every five parts it cut the cost of the materials by twenty five percent so they point out that a funny thing happened to geo spring on the way from the cheap chinese factory to the expensive kentucky factory the material cost went down the labor required to make it went down the quality went up even the energy efficiency went out you know they had designed this product in the united states for years and they sent the product design to china but what they found was that you know in the beginning
through workers' rights evisceration through the vilification of workers and labor in america to get to the point where we have chinese slave wages in america yes that's what we needed to do thank you now we have a prison state that's growing by leaps and bounds and prison labor for the same out there making over in china fantastic so kevin nolan the vice president of technology found that the juice bring suffered from advanced technology version of ikea syndrome it was so hard to assemble that...
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to bring russia closer to america fundamentally. it would make canada significant you have shale guest, the tar sand and the hydropower resources with open arctic it would be that much more significant. >> i would like to offer a quick comment. to go through another level off from the decade. but with the change with syria. but to on burden of responsibility, which countries do you envision south america, africa, you wrote about india obviously. in to be applied in and share our objectives? >> interesting brazil has carved out the identity. they always have trouble making arrangements to do missions of brazil. they are more standoffish. because of geography in west africa over the force of a decade so brazil would not be cost file to the united states but it would be independent with its own point* of view. says that may lead to argentina and develop their balance against brazil. it is strategic about the united states has gotten since the cold wear to asia -- from the rise of the cold war. it has been over hyped but within ds 2012
to bring russia closer to america fundamentally. it would make canada significant you have shale guest, the tar sand and the hydropower resources with open arctic it would be that much more significant. >> i would like to offer a quick comment. to go through another level off from the decade. but with the change with syria. but to on burden of responsibility, which countries do you envision south america, africa, you wrote about india obviously. in to be applied in and share our...
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this is true as much of the recent past as it is of colonial america. writing about the recent past is not easy to tailor this time around. first, there were people got to talk to. i was blessed from beginning to end by having fascinating views. i much prefer working for but documents than listening to people, tried to figure out what's real, what's imagined, what they know, what they think they know because someone told them what they think they know, but they don't know at all. the other difficult thing about writing about more recent past is it's not always easy to establish one's distance from it, to construct a pass that is so close to them. and yet, this is what historians have to do. our job is to complicate, to take apart our commonsense view of the recent past, to interrogate what we think we know, to demystify cavity mythologize, move beyond clichÉs about winners and losers, saints and sinners, about the wisdom and courage of our forefathers, especially those of the greatest generation. our job as historian, when grounded, delays of joseph p.
this is true as much of the recent past as it is of colonial america. writing about the recent past is not easy to tailor this time around. first, there were people got to talk to. i was blessed from beginning to end by having fascinating views. i much prefer working for but documents than listening to people, tried to figure out what's real, what's imagined, what they know, what they think they know because someone told them what they think they know, but they don't know at all. the other...
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bank of america is 15% mark to market. if you talk to only investment banks and you come up with something you want to buy assets below -- that doesn't work for commercial banks. i think there's more flexibility. we have time for one question left and gentleman over here. >> thank you. georgetown university. my question -- [inaudible] a lot of investors rely on the rich agencies ratings. -- [inaudible] they were being built backwards. looking at what they should put in order to get that particular -- [inaudible] i have clients with the particular rating. in other words the bankings are able to recruit for a bright people but also -- [inaudible] in order -- much more than what can happen at the agencies. but exactly how the ratings work and know exactly what they need do do in terms of the ratings. and -- [inaudible] simply they want to expect as much -- [inaudible] that's what the job is. how do you look at this and in
bank of america is 15% mark to market. if you talk to only investment banks and you come up with something you want to buy assets below -- that doesn't work for commercial banks. i think there's more flexibility. we have time for one question left and gentleman over here. >> thank you. georgetown university. my question -- [inaudible] a lot of investors rely on the rich agencies ratings. -- [inaudible] they were being built backwards. looking at what they should put in order to get that...
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in a sense america is being brought in brooklyn. as the first time their is a real american fighting. and it was extraordinary. and 240 soldiers you have in the book dine. they tell the story of a mass grave. i just found out. i almost wanted to cry. >> i didn't. >> it was a part of -- it was a footnote. one of the most dramatic moments i think of the war it's so -- it so -- what to me is really sad. a really dramatic moment. basically i'm not a military strategist among but the way you sign up, americans build a lot of embattlements waiting for the british to come up the east river. they come around from behind and that night and cut the month. the americans all run back down to the side of brooklyn second save face and evacuate. as they go this maryland regiment, the guys from pennsylvania were great shots apparently. so this regimen says you guys go ahead. we will stay here in this what which is now the goddess canal famed for -- not famed for the great giant oysters that it was once famed for, but fanned for bodies and poaching
in a sense america is being brought in brooklyn. as the first time their is a real american fighting. and it was extraordinary. and 240 soldiers you have in the book dine. they tell the story of a mass grave. i just found out. i almost wanted to cry. >> i didn't. >> it was a part of -- it was a footnote. one of the most dramatic moments i think of the war it's so -- it so -- what to me is really sad. a really dramatic moment. basically i'm not a military strategist among but the way...
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the success of these options required delivering on our promise to america's first responders. even with incentive options on course the demand for our airwaves will continue to grow. to meet this demand, efficiency is critical. at the fcc efficiency means getting all of our options done on a clear timeline. for industry efficiency means squeezing more out of the spectrum already allocated for commercial use. now is the time to invest in technologies, geographic, temporal and cognitive that multiplied the capacity of our air waves. finally for the federal government's efficiency means finding new approaches that facilitate repurchasing of the spectrum better than the old three step process of clearing, relocating and auctioning. to this end i believe it is time to develop a series of incentives to serve as catalysts for freeing more federal spectrum for commercial use. what if we were to financially reward federal authorities for efficient use of their spectrum. if we want to convert more airwaves to commercial use i believe it is time to work with our government partners so th
the success of these options required delivering on our promise to america's first responders. even with incentive options on course the demand for our airwaves will continue to grow. to meet this demand, efficiency is critical. at the fcc efficiency means getting all of our options done on a clear timeline. for industry efficiency means squeezing more out of the spectrum already allocated for commercial use. now is the time to invest in technologies, geographic, temporal and cognitive that...
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we can restore confidence in america, a balanced solution will provide america a fiscal course correction. and when we reach a meaningful deal, and i'm confident that we will, every credit rating agency will have to restore america's aaa rating. there are good people on the other side of the aisle. my colleague, senator hatch, recognize this business of the challenges. working together, we can get this done. working together, we can restore america's economic vitality. so i'll conclude where i began, taking you back to the football game, montana. at the end of the brawl of the wild, the final whistle blew, players from opposing teams gathered at midfield to shake hands. they had just beaten each other to a pulp in the frozen ground for the past "60 minutes." yet, the end of a game, they could come together and they did. the thousands of fans who spent the weekend left the stadium not as a bobcat, not as a grisly, but as montanans, as americans. this is the spirit we need now. come together to resolve the fiscal crisis, only way forward. now is the time to get to work. before i finished my
we can restore confidence in america, a balanced solution will provide america a fiscal course correction. and when we reach a meaningful deal, and i'm confident that we will, every credit rating agency will have to restore america's aaa rating. there are good people on the other side of the aisle. my colleague, senator hatch, recognize this business of the challenges. working together, we can get this done. working together, we can restore america's economic vitality. so i'll conclude where i...
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his new book, "the littlest america." mr. chandrasekaran, when you talk about little america, what are you talking about? >> guest: i'm talking about this remarkable community that the americans built in the deserts of southern afghanistan. not in the last couple years, but six decades ago. back when, unknown to most of our countrymen, there were dozens and dozens of american engineers there. this was back in the '40s and '50s digging irrigation canals, helping to nation build in afghanistan. and the very same terrain that president obama's troop surge unfolded in over the past couple of years. in in my history of obama's surge, i actually start back in the 1940s and this remarkable period of american assistance to afghanistan, a period of great optimism when we built this town there that the afghans started to call little america complete with a co-ed high school swimming pool where boys and girls would swim together, a clubhouse where you could get a gin and tonic. it was a period of great promise for the americans and afgh
his new book, "the littlest america." mr. chandrasekaran, when you talk about little america, what are you talking about? >> guest: i'm talking about this remarkable community that the americans built in the deserts of southern afghanistan. not in the last couple years, but six decades ago. back when, unknown to most of our countrymen, there were dozens and dozens of american engineers there. this was back in the '40s and '50s digging irrigation canals, helping to nation build...
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of bank of america which now owns countrywide. for the simple reason that they want to get his opinion on whether or not bank of america should be liable for the mistakes that countrywide made so they they fought the effort to get. morning and to pose for a long long time and then they finally did get to depose him in the spring of last year and it just only only just became public deposition and in this deposition morning when literally says that he does not recall the acquisition of countrywide . you know it's only the biggest and most important acquisition in the history of the company but as c.e.o. it just some kind of slipped his mind you know looking at this crisis now over four or five years into it and it's almost like they have to compare it or make the comparison to vietnam you know this is america's new vietnam you know that war america was unable to get out of it and they blew an entire generation thousands died and trillions spent and now you've got a new vietnam it's called the banking crisis the bankers are in charg
of bank of america which now owns countrywide. for the simple reason that they want to get his opinion on whether or not bank of america should be liable for the mistakes that countrywide made so they they fought the effort to get. morning and to pose for a long long time and then they finally did get to depose him in the spring of last year and it just only only just became public deposition and in this deposition morning when literally says that he does not recall the acquisition of...
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glenn beck howard, america would be a racial motto, drift and and coulter, mugged. did either of you pick up any of these books? there was the best seller for a couple weeks, don't they? >> guest: yeah, they do. i'm looking specifically at the and coulter book. she spoke untruths which publishers upon point because anytime you put a book with her name and her face on the cover, it would have a karen t. fail well into six figures. what time the sale strike has been dropping, dropping, dropping it seems as if she's had to come up our rhetoric and argumentative streak to sell fewer and fewer copies. so it will be interesting to see what she does for her next book and how far she's willing to go to make a buck and sell a book to speak. >> host: ipaq drift by rachel mandel went beyond the usual pundit book. it's questioning american military power and a lot of it is not written from a liberal date. she is an unabashed liberal, but she's on tv. i think she has a phd in something, like lyrical science or some thing. i think charles murray would not want to be called a pund
glenn beck howard, america would be a racial motto, drift and and coulter, mugged. did either of you pick up any of these books? there was the best seller for a couple weeks, don't they? >> guest: yeah, they do. i'm looking specifically at the and coulter book. she spoke untruths which publishers upon point because anytime you put a book with her name and her face on the cover, it would have a karen t. fail well into six figures. what time the sale strike has been dropping, dropping,...
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america remains a land of dreams and a nation of dreamers. i know that my history repeats itself today in millions of american families and their children and as long as that is so, i k our best days as a country or so ahead of us. so mr. president, i want my remarks today were country began a long time ago, with a dream and a prayer that god will continue to buzz the united states of america.ay f >> thank you, mr. president. i rise today for one final time to address the senate. and my remarks will be brief and actually i just want to say one thing. thank s you. first i wish i could say it with the eloquence of one of my first friends in the senate, senator dale bumpers, who told his stora lion tethered to a specially made extra-long microphone cord. or with the breadth of vision of the late senator robert c. byrd who sprinkled his classic mother's day or fourth of july speeches with memorized poetry and his vast command of history. or with the fire of my dear friend, the late senator ted kennedy, who would bell owe to the -- bellow to the r
america remains a land of dreams and a nation of dreamers. i know that my history repeats itself today in millions of american families and their children and as long as that is so, i k our best days as a country or so ahead of us. so mr. president, i want my remarks today were country began a long time ago, with a dream and a prayer that god will continue to buzz the united states of america.ay f >> thank you, mr. president. i rise today for one final time to address the senate. and my...
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you caught it made in america. i wonder if that was -- it was called made in america and it seems like it was some part from bilingual staff about project team division of america. >> jimmy also a producer jc can speak to it very well because he's been doing it for at least 15 years. i think what we were trying do was to show that we're going through revolution right now and that the revolution is about tearing the walls down and that everybody, you know come you don't go to record shops any longer. he put the map session we don't go to hip-hop and you don't put a rock 'n roll. everything is accessible to the internet and there's a unification with all these kids and they create their own message and there aren't any walls. >> jimmy, and the free to that. >> with hip-hop in the 80s and going to the 90s, i noticed a lot of the children, their parents are friends of mine letter from brooklyn or france or whatever. one common thing they always say to me is there's many fewer racial barriers than there were when we wer
you caught it made in america. i wonder if that was -- it was called made in america and it seems like it was some part from bilingual staff about project team division of america. >> jimmy also a producer jc can speak to it very well because he's been doing it for at least 15 years. i think what we were trying do was to show that we're going through revolution right now and that the revolution is about tearing the walls down and that everybody, you know come you don't go to record shops...
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in the fall of 2008 in the midst of an act of collective subtlety in which the wall street dragged america and the world economy under their funeral pyre i realize sullivan had nothing kidding at all and instead of writing prophecy and disguised wisdom as whimsy and failed to include surefire ways not to get rich majoring -- or becoming a professional mandolin player, two of the most obvious ways of all if not becoming rich. first, believing anything that anybody at anytime says on wall street. and second, from my perspective most important come, investing as i did your entire life savings in a 401(k) run by aol-time warner. now as well as a contributing editor to the boat and the father of the lot of books he is co-author along with his long-suffering wife suzanne of two incredibly talented children, louise and extraordinary singer and musician who i hope will make it here this evening and sam, who is currently attending yale which bob tells me is a four year institution in either hartford or new haven. let me begin our discussion by pointing out the fitting miss of discussing my american
in the fall of 2008 in the midst of an act of collective subtlety in which the wall street dragged america and the world economy under their funeral pyre i realize sullivan had nothing kidding at all and instead of writing prophecy and disguised wisdom as whimsy and failed to include surefire ways not to get rich majoring -- or becoming a professional mandolin player, two of the most obvious ways of all if not becoming rich. first, believing anything that anybody at anytime says on wall street....
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is an incredible and in some ways incredible american immigrant story that he comes to america, this is his dream, to become a movie star and he becomes a movie star and then he becomes governor of california. meanwhile the affair with the house speaker which is five pages in the book, he deals with it, doesn't say much, says he made a mistake, regrets it, does this sort of thing people say in those situations and i got an interview with him on the phone friday before the book came out. he already agreed to be on 60 minutes and they have a lot more time and midway through the interview, he said i cannot do arnold well. i don't like the way this interview is going. it is not about his accomplishments. if you like arnold schwarzenegger is all there. it made the best-seller list and went away. >> political pundits. always we get political pundit books every year including charles murray's coming apart, the state of white america, glen beck's power, marc levin, rachel matthau, drift and end coulter's mug. did you pick of these books? they always make a best seller list for a couple weeks
is an incredible and in some ways incredible american immigrant story that he comes to america, this is his dream, to become a movie star and he becomes a movie star and then he becomes governor of california. meanwhile the affair with the house speaker which is five pages in the book, he deals with it, doesn't say much, says he made a mistake, regrets it, does this sort of thing people say in those situations and i got an interview with him on the phone friday before the book came out. he...
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it is a crucial moment in his career and an important crucial moment in america's history. the big themes that you see in the speech and the broader story working through the election are kind of i think of four that i will be focusing on. i will be brief on each of them to give enough time for questions. first off, the obvious background of the cold war and a new style of conservative vision of foreign policy that i will explain. directly related to that, there is an enormous divide within the republican party in 1952. that shouldn't surprise any of us obviously. this is always a very divided party the tensions within the republican party that the speech and election point to are important. the third thing that i think is perhaps most important is the american tradition of populism for and what richard nixon is doing to the populist tradition in this speech and for what the election and the fourth and final thing is the style of politics nixon developed. the subtitle of the book is about the rocking, socking the election of 1952 and that is nixon's conception of politics,
it is a crucial moment in his career and an important crucial moment in america's history. the big themes that you see in the speech and the broader story working through the election are kind of i think of four that i will be focusing on. i will be brief on each of them to give enough time for questions. first off, the obvious background of the cold war and a new style of conservative vision of foreign policy that i will explain. directly related to that, there is an enormous divide within the...
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in america. we shall meet you to take to the mayor to the best tranquil end of the french story of canada let me. make it up the next attempt to get. the mexican to expose their place maybe problems like they can be. when the m m m. m well it looks. like taxis. was raised the way or. the steps to stop locating. the government she claims but you know freak if we take the low be. slick. let's take you with a. cutler. politically here you would like to be slaves showing she's a purist slave trying to get this next season if it was really cold bank militant muslims. would be a puppet to the ability to play was released strata make such. soldiers feel stupid let. me explain you can never please. just know i'm so right now based on what julie's taking place in the galaxy. galaxy a. great place to live next to each item in the country to make. up for me to get into the more like space twenty one in the space in the realm of three strikes late modern day usa even after the sax player gets to claim in a l
in america. we shall meet you to take to the mayor to the best tranquil end of the french story of canada let me. make it up the next attempt to get. the mexican to expose their place maybe problems like they can be. when the m m m. m well it looks. like taxis. was raised the way or. the steps to stop locating. the government she claims but you know freak if we take the low be. slick. let's take you with a. cutler. politically here you would like to be slaves showing she's a purist slave trying...
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god bless america. thank you very much. [applause] we're privileged to have with us here today members of the united states marine band begin teen who will perform the musical patriotic salute to the veterans. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] ladies and gentlemen how about another big round of applause for the united states marine band. the brass quintet. [applause] at this time, i would like to introduce to you the producer, the directer of the film "honor flight" mr. dan hays. [applause] thank you for having me here today. what an honor to be here to remember such an important day in our history. so about three years ago i wandered down the memorial with my video camera, right over there by the atlantic pillar and asked a world war ii veteran a simple question. i said how is your day going? he looked at me with the out most sincerity in his eyes and he said i could die a happy man now that i made this trip. that answer was the beginning of an incredible journey for me. it served asen inspiration to make a documentar
god bless america. thank you very much. [applause] we're privileged to have with us here today members of the united states marine band begin teen who will perform the musical patriotic salute to the veterans. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] ladies and gentlemen how about another big round of applause for the united states marine band. the brass quintet. [applause] at this time, i would like to introduce to you the producer, the directer of the film "honor flight" mr. dan hays....
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i also think america played an important role -- should play a role in this. write your voice has been largely muted by her tunnel visions, by someway we can do this in our government and outside of government falsified. the main argument is it is upon us and more is coming. more changes coming. some of that likud islamist forces will need to figure out how to best use their power to shape and influence. >> thank you very much. i'm to run. extra bonus points if you can wait that hamon cheese eating islamist line america. >> a couple of closing points. first, we can collectively -- maybe i'll just say myself, generally with project a certain bigotry of low expect nations on muslims in the arab cultural world, which is those of us who are various religious faiths here know the extent to which we practice our faith in how faithful we are to this or that religious prescription. do we know that we fall pretty darn sure, but we think muslims, they'll pray five times a day. it never touched a scotch. every commandment that is in islam and of course they all submit to
i also think america played an important role -- should play a role in this. write your voice has been largely muted by her tunnel visions, by someway we can do this in our government and outside of government falsified. the main argument is it is upon us and more is coming. more changes coming. some of that likud islamist forces will need to figure out how to best use their power to shape and influence. >> thank you very much. i'm to run. extra bonus points if you can wait that hamon...
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having a commercial mortgage-backed security market where prices there fell in the market and puts america at, ceos, through prices plummeted. by the way, that market has come back in that volatility and market a something that is perhaps of concern to the public. but when it is involving his people's homes, of course that involves families, wealth creation, both destruction and it goes further to issue the facility of time and mic democracy if we destroy well. it also has implications for the financial system because housing or backed by housing is the financial systems depend on. it's exactly what happened. so to counter that is the role they should play and should play. taken in quite a different direction, implementation of that means that fha did not and should not have attempted to compete with the private sector when it's put out loans in 2005, six and seven. at that point, the fha market share plummeted. there were some recommendations that will be fha needs to keep its market share. why doesn't intend to compete? that's exactly what it needed to not do to protect itself and future
having a commercial mortgage-backed security market where prices there fell in the market and puts america at, ceos, through prices plummeted. by the way, that market has come back in that volatility and market a something that is perhaps of concern to the public. but when it is involving his people's homes, of course that involves families, wealth creation, both destruction and it goes further to issue the facility of time and mic democracy if we destroy well. it also has implications for the...
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how many stones like this are mined in america? most jewelry is not made in america. it is just not. think aboutbe that we live on. this could be one of the old stones coming out of the ground today. it is a half of billion a year old >>guest: as darkly is >>host: see >>guest: >>guest: and the honor wrynecks this was made with the silica it was serendipity -- this was made in animatronic mountains, that is it. c13 -- adirondack mountains >>host: be honest with you as much as i love everything about it this is supporting our american in jewelry makers that is what makes me and proud to offer this. almost 20,000 are gone! that is our vast majority of the day. use flex pay to get them home.put them on your years you will forget that you are wearing them because they are so comfortable -- your ears.of them before $70 they sold out in seconds and then they became a customer pick with perfect five stars. previews and 23 of them were perfect five stars each why and and the women who bought them love them. i immediately called my by air and i said i do not know if it is possi
how many stones like this are mined in america? most jewelry is not made in america. it is just not. think aboutbe that we live on. this could be one of the old stones coming out of the ground today. it is a half of billion a year old >>guest: as darkly is >>host: see >>guest: >>guest: and the honor wrynecks this was made with the silica it was serendipity -- this was made in animatronic mountains, that is it. c13 -- adirondack mountains >>host: be honest with you...
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[applause] john: america has more than 400 billionaires'. i say they are cheap because until recently they did not give a lot to charity. 1997 ted turner promised to donate $1 billion to the wind. united nations? they squandered money. if business tycoons do more for the world than two reinvests of the business creates jobs and wealth for everyone. why is giving away better? >> why not do both? john: i am happy if bill gates gives nothing. >> this is why people don't like newsmen. i know your dirty tricks. there is nothing more to say. good by. i of walking off the set. [laughter] john: it is true that businessmen like ted turr to the right thing. says your on broke from the ayn rand institute. how did they become a billionaire? creating a product service to benefit everybody we know because it pays -- repay for it. we get more value than what we give up. bill gates has improved hundreds of millions of lives he has touched every human being. >> to also employ people that charity keeps on giving. >> you pay employees but they are better off.
[applause] john: america has more than 400 billionaires'. i say they are cheap because until recently they did not give a lot to charity. 1997 ted turner promised to donate $1 billion to the wind. united nations? they squandered money. if business tycoons do more for the world than two reinvests of the business creates jobs and wealth for everyone. why is giving away better? >> why not do both? john: i am happy if bill gates gives nothing. >> this is why people don't like newsmen. i...
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long island has always been there for america. we hope that we had meetings with small business administration, governor's business action center was there and try and to give business is as much information as possible, but the bottom line is what is available through the federal government is a 4% loan. so if we have only to have grant or possibly have lower interest loan, we are working with the chamber in the hudson county chamber has come in. i will say more or nation sharing also hopeless to help the businesses as well. i think trying -- as a look at these numbers come at the you outline for both new york and new jersey. i mean, the economic impact is tremendous when you look at the total impact. i think this is a situation where we need to do as much as we can on the state level. we need to do as much as we can on the federal level. soberly stepping back insane can make it grants directly to business owners so they can make sure they can stay in business. i can tell you from personal experience i live in southwest hoboken.
long island has always been there for america. we hope that we had meetings with small business administration, governor's business action center was there and try and to give business is as much information as possible, but the bottom line is what is available through the federal government is a 4% loan. so if we have only to have grant or possibly have lower interest loan, we are working with the chamber in the hudson county chamber has come in. i will say more or nation sharing also hopeless...
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but it does -- can america still have it all? and in the way, has framed that, the answer is no, that there are limits. >> steve, even as we rebalanced to the asia-pacific we have continued are deep engagement with the region, other countries just as if, there's one example in our defense strategic guidance put out in january talked about having to become a net provider of security. i think you see that over the last couple of decades, and you see ongoing today. we will continue to be engaged in a obvious of the middle east and north africa and globally. the united states is a global power. it is not a zero-sum game, particularly when you look at the importance of alliances and partnerships, both within the asia-pacific and globally. our objective is to continue to strengthen those alliances and partnerships, and if we, if i can pivot to the topic of china, to build on the areas of cooperation that we have across the border, including militarily, and because we know there's going to be competition to, particularly in the military
but it does -- can america still have it all? and in the way, has framed that, the answer is no, that there are limits. >> steve, even as we rebalanced to the asia-pacific we have continued are deep engagement with the region, other countries just as if, there's one example in our defense strategic guidance put out in january talked about having to become a net provider of security. i think you see that over the last couple of decades, and you see ongoing today. we will continue to be...
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one america to move quickly in the best ways possible. what you want from you also need a plan for her. if the networks, a planned test it, it's an audited in a plan that has a review. i happen to come from california. the happiness in the area and many of you talk about. it's part of where it began. i have ruled out of viability, cost and with them and come in this will ever that is why i joined the chairman, mr. denham, mr. miller at the gao, asking for an audit and review of the business plan in california. a look forward to hearing testimony later through corporatists completed. today it has been billions of dollars. as concerns about the business plan itself an equally concerning to me just because we've invested money coming does that mean we have to invest more? the current plan to be finished in the smallest ever asked for another $38 billion of the federal government. please put that in perspective. we arrest a number for the rest of the month under fiscal cliff. if you resell the dollar symbol the taxes has proposed, you'll make
one america to move quickly in the best ways possible. what you want from you also need a plan for her. if the networks, a planned test it, it's an audited in a plan that has a review. i happen to come from california. the happiness in the area and many of you talk about. it's part of where it began. i have ruled out of viability, cost and with them and come in this will ever that is why i joined the chairman, mr. denham, mr. miller at the gao, asking for an audit and review of the business...
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global trading for america's economic interest. finally, i will speak about the future of the swap market triet from friday, october 12, 22, to monday october 15th, we saw a complete migration of trading activity in the u.s. natural gas and electric power markets from the cleared swaps to economically equivalent futures. by tuesday, almost none were trading in the american energy markets. this over my development in a vital u.s. market happened almost entirely because energy trading firms sought to avoid registering the dealers or major swaps participants. it happened because the cftc has further regulatory arbitrage against one product under its jurisdiction and the futures could it happened with little study or understanding by the regulators of the unintended consequences of the u.s. markets, traders or energy consumers and haven't certainly without a cost-benefit analysis. here are the concerns. first the future as asian of the swaps harms the competitive market structure that dodd-frank meant to preserve. that is the choice of
global trading for america's economic interest. finally, i will speak about the future of the swap market triet from friday, october 12, 22, to monday october 15th, we saw a complete migration of trading activity in the u.s. natural gas and electric power markets from the cleared swaps to economically equivalent futures. by tuesday, almost none were trading in the american energy markets. this over my development in a vital u.s. market happened almost entirely because energy trading firms...
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this is america. this is. where i was supposed to be free this is where we're supposed to be able to walk down any street we choose. and the next day he died doing what he thought. was his right. death is away a lot. can you imagine a society where mothers up burying their children instead of their children varying their mothers. were. were. were way. way . why. it's ok to cry and have to cry. i had to cry in order to to to keep gone. i have to cry because if i don't cry and i keep body and go up to me. i may do something you know people say oh you can get over it hell no we can't we just get through it just get through it but never get over it if you don't take my dog you didn't walk alone on my house you know you didn't you know repossessed my car my son was murdered he just didn't die he was murdered. so when i finally went back was go out of our way of trying and it was amazing now the kids look around and they're like oh you know i ground out teary eyed even some of the boy and then i would ask him how ma
this is america. this is. where i was supposed to be free this is where we're supposed to be able to walk down any street we choose. and the next day he died doing what he thought. was his right. death is away a lot. can you imagine a society where mothers up burying their children instead of their children varying their mothers. were. were. were way. way . why. it's ok to cry and have to cry. i had to cry in order to to to keep gone. i have to cry because if i don't cry and i keep body and go...
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into forty four levels under the earth is the oldest mine in colombia and the second deepest in latin america. it is two thousand five hundred meters deep that those and there are underground galleries of over four thousand meters in all the tunnels combined are over eight hundred kilometers long. or to see at the speed of the. el solenn c.-o. is a giant underground labyrinth of complex tunnels here one thousand one hundred people work and you really have to know where you're going. this is the vein. here is where the gold is found from here on down and here on up. sometimes it is of interest sometimes not. because the concentration is. what really interests this is this the fam. at five hundred meters under the surface of the earth the atmosphere is us fixating heat humidity and thick dust make it hard to breathe. level eighteen is the deepest you can get. from levels one thousand to forty four everything is flooded. half the mine is under water and dozens of pumps are trying to pull the water up to the surface. even in this state however. produces about seven kilos of gold a month. this is
into forty four levels under the earth is the oldest mine in colombia and the second deepest in latin america. it is two thousand five hundred meters deep that those and there are underground galleries of over four thousand meters in all the tunnels combined are over eight hundred kilometers long. or to see at the speed of the. el solenn c.-o. is a giant underground labyrinth of complex tunnels here one thousand one hundred people work and you really have to know where you're going. this is the...
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this has no tying of the hands of america. there isn't one law in the united states that will be negatively affected. but it will push, it will leverage, it will the countries by their commitment to be held accountability -- accountable to the standard we have set and take our gold standard and extend it to the rest of the world. so there are three reasons that i've heard that we can't do this. when i hear them, i'm reminded what i learned when i was a prosecutor quite a few years ago now. i learned that, you know, if -- if the facts are against you, then argue the law. if the law is against you, then argue the facts. and if both of against you, just make it up. well, that's exactly what's happening here, mr. president. neither the law nor the facts support any argument that has been made on the other side of this treat. so accordingly we're facing an entirely fictitious set of arguments on abortion, on home schooling, on lame-duck sessions. all of their arguments have been contradicted by the facts and the law, let me documen
this has no tying of the hands of america. there isn't one law in the united states that will be negatively affected. but it will push, it will leverage, it will the countries by their commitment to be held accountability -- accountable to the standard we have set and take our gold standard and extend it to the rest of the world. so there are three reasons that i've heard that we can't do this. when i hear them, i'm reminded what i learned when i was a prosecutor quite a few years ago now. i...
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pplause] john: america has more than 400 billionaires'. i say they are cheap because until recently they did not give a lot to charity. 1997 ted turner promised to donate $1 billion to the wind. united nations? they squandered money. if business tycoons do more for the world than two reinvests of the business creates jobs and wealth for everyone. why is giving away better? >> why not do both? john: i am happy if bill tes gives nothing. >> this is why people don't like newsmen. i know your dirty tricks. there is nothing more to say. good by. i of walking off the set. [laughter] john: it is true that businessmen like ted turner to the right thing. says your on broke from the ayn rand institute. how dd the become a billionaire? creating a product service to benefit everybody we know because it pays -- repay for it. we get more value than what we give up. bill gates has improved hundreds of millions of lives heas touched every human being. >> to also employ people that charity keeps on giving. >> you pay employees but they are better off. what
pplause] john: america has more than 400 billionaires'. i say they are cheap because until recently they did not give a lot to charity. 1997 ted turner promised to donate $1 billion to the wind. united nations? they squandered money. if business tycoons do more for the world than two reinvests of the business creates jobs and wealth for everyone. why is giving away better? >> why not do both? john: i am happy if bill tes gives nothing. >> this is why people don't like newsmen. i...
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